(Closed) Do I have to have a channel set wedding band?

I need some advice/inspiration bees… I received the most beautiful e-ring on Friday!! We went to a jeweler back in June and talked about things we liked/disliked and then my Fiance designed the ring. We specifically told the jeweler that we wanted a prong or pave set shank on the ring (and specified that we disliked channel settings). When Fiance went to view the mold he said it was very hard to see the small details because the blue wax doesn’t compare to gold, and I suppose in the excitement of getting the ring/it being 7 weeks later he didn’t watch the shank.

And now… I have a channel set shank on my ring. I am surprised by how much I really don’t mind the channel setting, but I’m worried that when it comes time to pick a wedding band I will have to choose something channel set. We are going to go try some wedding bands with the ring and worst case scenario the jeweler has offered to do whatever it takes to make us happy with the shank. I really don’t want to have to rework the entire band. Maybe it would be possible to polish down the channel “sides” for a less-metal look?

Does any one have a channel set e-ring with a NON-channel set wedding band(s)? Please show me some pictures!

It’s really hard to tell in the picture if you have a channel set or not. It almost looks like the diamonds in the shank have seed beads holding them in rather than the channel holding them in. But the picture isn’t large enough or close enough to tell.

There is no reason why you have to get a channel set wedding band to go with you ring. The diamonds around your center stone are not channel set, so you can match those if you want and it would look perfect.

@Loribeth: Thank you! I am awfully smitten by it myself! There are little beads holding down the diamonds – does that make it NOT channel set? I thought that anything with the diamonds setting down in the band with metal on each side it was considered channel. I didn’t consider that matching the halo might look okay… thats definitely something to consider.

@Hydrangea09: Your ring is gorgeous! I definately think you can play up the look of the halo if you want. I have a little cluster of diamonds on either side of my center stone and opted to play up that instead of go for a channel set band to better match the band of the ering. It changed the feeling of the whole set, so go to a jewelry store and play around bit.

Your ring is not channel set. It is Pave set, which is good, since that’s what you wanted! In a channel setting, there would be no beads holding the diamonds in place, the edges of the channel would overlap the edges of the diamonds holding them in.

You don’t have to get a band to match, get whatever you love with it! My ring is a solitaire & my wedding band is a channel set. My e-ring is a marquise diamond & the diamonds in my wedding band are round! Its whatever you want & love that you should get! 🙂

I have a channel set e-ring, and when I tried on channel set wedding bands, I did not like the overall look for me. I didn’t want it to be too matchy, and I also didn’t want too much extra width with the 2 bands combined. I ended up getting this really thin diamond band that is not channel setting, and I absolutely love it!

I am really bad at taking pictures of my rings, they almost always show up blurry, but here is one that I found that shows both rings together: